#SET DEFAULT PROGRAM TO OPEN MAC OS X#
#SET DEFAULT PROGRAM TO OPEN WINDOWS 10#
#SET DEFAULT PROGRAM TO OPEN PC#
#SET DEFAULT PROGRAM TO OPEN WINDOWS#

And if you ever want to change it again, just go through the same steps from the Get Info window. If youвЂ™re sure, then a click on вЂњContinueвЂќ and youвЂ™re done. Want to change each and every JPEG file on your computer to open with GraphicConverter 9, not just this one? Any user created will then have those defaults you set in Audit Mode. You will see a list of default apps assigned to open email, music, photos and web browser.

#SET DEFAULT PROGRAM TO OPEN WINDOWS#

Windows App Settings Select Default apps from the left sidebar.

Press Win + I shortcut keys and open Windows Settings app and click on the Apps option.

#SET DEFAULT PROGRAM TO OPEN WINDOWS 10#

When you then sysprep with COPYPROFILETRUE in answer file, all those defaults will be copied to default profile, the base used to create all user profiles. Windows 10 offers a dedicated setting to setup default apps to open different files. Now choose the program youвЂ™d prefer from the pop-up menu, and itвЂ™ll look like this: When done, open Settings app and set default apps as you wish. If you donвЂ™t see quite the same view, just click on some of the triangles on the left side of each of the seven sections to reveal the вЂњOpen withвЂќ section. You can see that IвЂ™ve clicked a few of the tiny grey triangles to close up all the sections other than вЂњOpen withвЂќ. To do that click on the file icon to choose it, then press Cmd-I or choose вЂњGet InfoвЂќ from the вЂњFileвЂќ menu in the Finder. The wrinkle? It doesnвЂ™t change what program owns or will be utilized for all other JPEG or JPG files. Select desired Excel version and select 'Set this program as default. In the Search Bar, type 'Default Programs.' Click 'Default Programs.' Wait for the app to start, then select 'Set your default programs.' Find desired Excel version in the list. Again, choose your favorite app and this particular file will now always open in that program. xls data files: Select the Windows Icon in the start bar.

To change which program owns this particular file, pressing Control-Click THEN, while still holding down the Control key, pressing the Option key produces a slightly different menu: Problem with this solution is that it doesnвЂ™t change anything for the next time I touch the file: itвЂ™ll still open in Preview on double-click. In this case, IвЂ™d like to open the image with GraphicConverter 9, so I could do that by simply choosing it from the list. Try a different file, like a DOCX or a WMA file, and youвЂ™ll see a very different list of available apps. By choosing вЂњOpen WithвЂќ I get a secondary menu that shows the default app for this file type (Preview) along with a list of different programs that have indicated to the OS that they can handle a JPG file. Here IвЂ™m trying to open up the file вЂњamerican-hustle-poster.jpgвЂќ, a JPEG format image. Second, you can change the default program. First, you can make a specific program a default program. To open a file with a specific program or application, right click (oops, sorry, вЂњcontrol-clickвЂќ) on the icon: In Windows 8, there are three ways to set the default program used to open a specific file type. Then click OK to close the windows, from now on, when clicking the hyperlink, it will be opened with the browser you have just specified.

#SET DEFAULT PROGRAM TO OPEN MAC OS X#

You can get into a bit of trouble if you assign a filetype to a program that canвЂ™t handle it, like an audio file to be always opened in Adobe Photoshop, but youвЂ™ll see, Mac OS X warns you about that by tapping into a list of known file types for each program you have on your system. In the popping up Set Default Programs window, choose one browser you like from the Programs list box, and then click Set this program as default option in the right section, see screenshot: 6.

#SET DEFAULT PROGRAM TO OPEN PC#

If you don't see the program you want to use as the default, click the arrow next to Other Programs to see a list of programs available on your computer.On a PC IвЂ™d say you need to deal with the file registry or some complex setting, but on the Mac itвЂ™s surprisingly easy to get this correct, though it turns out that there are three possible solutions: you can open up a file with a specific program once, you can specify that particular file should always open up with a specific program or app, or you can tell Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks (or whatever version of Mac OS youвЂ™re running) that forevermore all files of the specified type should be assigned to the program you prefer. If no other programs are installed that are able to open the file type or protocol, your choices will be limited.) (If you don't see Other Programs, or your program is not listed, click Browse to find the program you want to use, and then click Open. Open Default Programs by clicking the Start button and then clicking Default Programs.Д¬lick Associate a file type or protocol with a program.Д¬lick the file type or protocol that you want the program to act as the default for.Д¬lick the program that you want to use as the default for the file type you selected, or click the arrow next to Other Programs to show additional programs. If a program does not show up in the list, you can make the program a default by using Set Associations. Use this option to choose which programs you want Windows to use, by default.

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